Summary - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde is a hilarious and playful look at the spirit world. It takes place in an 1800 British Castle‚ known as Canterville Chase. Residents in the area think a ghost haunts the castle. The story has an unexpected ending as Mr. Simon’s ghost eventually befriends Virginia‚ the daughter of the owners of Canterville Chase. An American minister and his family live at the castle. These people especially the father‚ Mr. Otis‚ do not believe in ghosts. The twins
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William Marcy Tweed‚ aka "Boss Tweed‚" began as a New York City volunteer fireman but worked his way up the political ladder. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1853. In 1858‚ he rose to the head of Tammany Hall‚ the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York‚ and was later elected to the New York State Senate in 1867. Tweed gathered around him a small ring of bigwigs who controlled New York City’s finances. Tweed’s Ring essentially controlled New York City until
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### ### American Military University Journey to America Story of the Irish in Antebellum America HS101 - US History to 1877 William J. McMonigle - 3055083 Friday‚ October 28‚ 2005 When many think of the times of immigration‚ they tend to recall the Irish Immigration and with it comes the potato famine of the 1840s’ however‚ they forget that immigrants from the Emerald Isle also poured into America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The assimilation
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Hamilton and the Federalists • Federalists had control of new government for twelve years • Washington envisioned a strong national government • Alexander Hamilton became dominant figure in Washington’s administration‚ and he exerted more influence on domestic and foreign policy than anyone during his term and after his resignation (1794) • Hamilton believed stable and effective government required enlightened ruling class • The new government needed the support of the wealthy and powerful‚
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widely reproduced by the Republican Party for use in President Lincoln’s campaign‚ which Lincoln did go on to win (Encyclopedia Britannica). In the election of 1868‚ Nast began his cartoon campaign against William M. Tweed‚ boss of New York City’s Tammany Hall‚ and his associates with A Respectable Screen Covers a Multitude of Thieves in the October 10th issue of Harper’s Weekly (Encyclopedia Britannica). Pressure was put on Harper Brothers‚ the company that produced the magazine‚ and when it refused
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independence for women as envisioned by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ or civil disobedience as practiced by Mahatma Gandhi. Clarence Lexow‚ Caroline’s Father‚ was a New York attorney who served as a state senator from 1894 to 1898 and became chairman of the Tammany-smashing Lexow Commission. (One result of the Commission’s disclosures was to project Theodore Roosevelt to national attention‚ first as a courageous police commissioner and later as governor of New York.)”[1] Having her Father be such an important
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Coney Island at the turn of the century was a bustling and growing place. People of all classes traveled from New York City as well as other parts of the world to take part in the famous amusements that helped to loosen the tight corsets of Victorian gentility. Inspired by the Columbian Exposition in 1893 George Tilyou began to build a park on Coney Island beginning with the Ferris Wheel similar to that featured at the exposition which was designed by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. By 1895 Tilyou
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Aaron Burr’s Life Biography Aaron Burr was born on February 6‚ 1756 in Newark‚ New Jersey. When he first arrived‚ a little sister named Sally had already preceded him. Their father was Reverend Aaron Burr‚ and their mother was Ester Edwards Burr‚ daughter of the famous Jonathan Edwards‚ a high honor at the Calvin school. Aaron Burr Sr. was also the second president of Princeton. He represented all that was austere and hopeless in Puritanism. But Aaron‚ Jr. inherited only one tenet out of
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William Tweed was the most notorious corrupt politician. Once again the movie showed Boss tweed as the head of Tammany Hall which openly sided with whichever gang in the five points had the most power and used them to pressure and convince people to vote for him and his legislations. In the Novel “The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld” by Herbert
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AP U.S. Summer Assignment Mr. O’handley Nicholas West Due Date: Sept. 5 2012 AP U.S. Summer Assignment Nicholas West Mr. O’handley 7/27/12 OUTLINES CH 1-5 “With the dawn of the 16th century‚ there came together in Europe both the motivation and the means to explore and colonize territory across the sea.” -Trade- the concurring of the Inca Empire led by Francisco Pizarro led to the shipping of tons of gold and silver to
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